Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV
_€, That this deponent was also informed that one of the said Petitions was handed about for subscriptions in Rockingham Westward of the said River Connecticut in the Month of December last by one Peter Bellows a son of one of the New Hampshire Magistrates but that very few of the Inhabitants of said Tract would subseribe the same, That Robert Heavens of Sharon in the County of Cumberland shewed this Deponent another of the said Petitions which he the said Heavens declared he received from Benjamin Bellows Junior another son of the said New Hampshire Magistrate who resided at Wallpole in the Province of New Hampshire in order to be Circulated for subscription as aforesaid and that at the time the said Heavens shewed the Deponent said petition there were only Eight or nine subscribers thereto which said Heavens informed the Deponent was the only persons in said Sharon that would subscribe the same. That Nathan Stone one of the Rietors of Windsor in the County of Cumberland shewed this Deponent another of the said petitions which he said .was delivered him in order to be subscribed ag aforesaid but that there was no subseribers thereto at the Time the said Stone shewed the same to this Deponent.
D. That this Deponent has in his possession a map which he and another person procured from a Gentleman of New Hampshire as an Authantick Draft of the Lands said to be Granted by the late Goyernor; Wentworth on the West side of the River